Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling,Mass Market Paperback - REPRINT, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Bruce Sterling,Mass Market Paperback - REPRINT, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780441374236 (0441374239)
Publish date: March 1st 1989
Publisher: Ace
Pages no: 396
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Science,
Technology,
American,
20th Century,
Speculative Fiction,
Short Stories,
Cyberpunk,
Near Future
Holy crap, coolest cover of all time.
This remains my favorite Sterling novel. Set in the near future (from when it was written), it's amazingly prescient about the danger of failed states as breeding grounds for terror. While some of his technological predictions are hilariously off the mark (most notably, the fax machine as an importa...